wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9780199572069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in ancient societies - and what wide-ranging effects these actions had on the historical process. The volume is interested in how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. Its twelve case studies explore different aspects of the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural), and looks at how these layers are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material...
Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in an...
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500,54 zł |
Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity
ISBN: 9780521614078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The foundation of the Sasanian Empire in Persia in AD 224 established a formidable new power on the Roman Empire's eastern frontier, and relations over the next four centuries proved turbulent. This book provides a chronological narrative of their relationship, supported by a substantial collection of translated sources illustrating structural patterns. The political goals of the two sides, their military confrontations and their diplomatic solutions are discussed, as well as the common interests between the two powers. Special attention is given to the situation of Arabia and Armenia, to...
The foundation of the Sasanian Empire in Persia in AD 224 established a formidable new power on the Roman Empire's eastern frontier, and relations ove...
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207,87 zł |
Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus
ISBN: 9780674027879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is a Greek priest? The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of manteis. Each chapter looks at how priests and religious officials used a potential authority to promote themselves and their posts, how they played a role in conserving, shaping and reviving cult activity, how they acted behind the curtain of polis...
What is a Greek priest? The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the q...
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93,08 zł |
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
ISBN: 9780199254088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This original study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hosted them. Examining the forms of interaction between rulers, cities, and sanctuaries, the book proposes a triangular relationship in which the rulers often acted as mediators between differing interests of city and cult.
This original study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hoste...
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1007,13 zł |
A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
ISBN: 9781350408579 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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135,59 zł |
Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals
ISBN: 9780521849258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The foundation of the Sasanian Empire in Persia in AD 224 established a formidable new power on the Roman Empire's eastern frontier, and relations over the next four centuries proved turbulent. This book provides a chronological narrative of their relationship, supported by a substantial collection of translated sources illustrating structural patterns. The political goals of the two sides, their military confrontations and their diplomatic solutions are discussed, as well as the common interests between the two powers. Special attention is given to the situation of Arabia and Armenia, to...
The foundation of the Sasanian Empire in Persia in AD 224 established a formidable new power on the Roman Empire's eastern frontier, and relations ove...
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426,41 zł |
Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World
ISBN: 9783110416855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Wandering Myths edits and interprets the research presented at three workshops and an international conference of the same title that were held in Oxford between January and April 2014. In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception b... |
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740,83 zł |
A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
ISBN: 9781474273374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 800 BC to 500 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture;...
A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of hist...
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417,35 zł |